Information structure and syntactic change in Germanic and Romance languages / Edited by Kristin Bech ; Kristine Gunn Eide, University of Oslo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bech, Kristin, editor.

Eide, Kristine Gunn, editor.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 213.

Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; volume 213

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Topic and content.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Germanic languages--Grammar, Comparative--Romance.

Germanic languages.

Romance languages--Grammar, Comparative--Germanic.

Romance languages.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Comparative linguistics.

Romance languages--Grammar, Comparative.

Germanic languages--Grammar, Comparative.

Physical Description:

vi, 421 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]

Contents:

1 Acknowledgements p. vii

2 Information structure and syntax in old Germanic and Romance languages p. 1 / Kristin Bech; Kristine Gunn Eide

3 Part I. Information-structural categories and corpus annotation

4 The theoretical foundations of givenness annotation p. 17 / Dag T.T. Haug; Hanne Martine Eckhoff; Eirik Welo

5 Testing the theory p. 53 / Ann Taylor; Susan Pintzuk

6 Part II. Changes on the interface between syntax and information structure

7 Quantifying information structure change in English p. 81 / Erwin R. Komen; Rosanne Hebing; Ans M.C. van Kemenade; Bettelou Los

8 Tracing overlap in function in historical corpora p. 111 / Gea Dreschler

9 Referential properties of the full and reduced forms of the definite article in German p. 141 / Marco Coniglio; Eva Schlachter

10 The cognitive status of null subject referents in Old Norse and their Modern Norwegian counterparts p. 173 / Kari Kinn

11 Part III. Comparisons on the interface between syntax and information structure

12 Word order variation in late Middle English p. 203 / Tamás Eitler; Marit Westergaard

13 Preverbal word order in Old English and Old French p. 233 / Kristin Bech; Christine Meklenborg Salvesen

14 Formal properties of event-reporting sentences in Old High German and Old French p. 271 / Svetlana Petrova; Esther Rinke

15 Subjects and objects in Germanic and Romance p. 295 / Jan Terje Faarlund; Kristin Hagemann

16 Object position and Heavy NP Shift in Old Saxon and beyond p. 313 / George Walkden

17 On the interaction between syntax, prosody and information structure p. 341 / Roland Hinterhölzl

18 Contrastivity and information structure in the old Ibero-Romance languages p. 377 / Kristine Gunn Eide; Ioanna Sitaridou

19 Index of languages p. 413

20 Databases and annotation schemes p. 415

21 Word index p. 417.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027255969

9027255962

OCLC:

868150371